"Historians and Historical Research at Iraqi Universities. A Survey".
The German Federal Ministry of Education (Bmbf) funds a project by Bashar Ibrahim and Jenny Oesterle (both members of the Arab German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities)[more info]

Dr. Carsten Wergin contributed a session on 'Listening Carefully' to the Radical Hope Syllabus. The group-sourced syllabus is intended as a resource for anyone interested in environmental issues - and how we, collectively and/or individually, might respond to them [more info]

Jenny Oesterle organizes together with Prof. Dr. Susanne Lachenicht a section on the 52. deutschen Historikertag in Münster on the subject of "Flight and Asylum from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period - transcultural perspectives" [more]

"Refugee transfers in the Euro- Arab Mediterranean zone:
Tying the past with the present
Towards a transregional and transhistorical understanding in times of crises"

(10-12 April 2017 Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon)

organized by

Dr. Jenny Oesterle (Research Group "Protection in Periods of Political and Religious Expansion) in cooperation with Dr. Tamirace Fakhoury (Lebanese American
University, Byblos) and the Arab German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Collaborations of Biocultural Hope: Community Science Against Industrialisation in Northwest Australia

Trade Embargoes in a Changing World

Dr. Georg Christ, Junior Research Group Leader; associated with MathComp, member of HCE.

Against the backdrop of the climate change and the demographic crisis of the Late Middle Ages, trade embargos of the Hanseatic league are compared with embargos in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Middle Ages. The struggle over the control of trade withdrew merchants from legal spheres of trade and fostered strategies of evasion, e.g. smuggling. Justification of trade embargoes, economic, fiscal and military policies to implement them and the respective coping mechanisms shall not be understood as "oppressive" regulations and (often) "criminal" reaction but, rather, as a multi-layered struggle over economic resources in times of change.

CV

Current function

since 2008

Research Group Leader, University of Heidelberg, research group "Trading Diasporas in the in the Eastern Mediterranean (1250-1450)" (3 PhD students, 3 research assistants, 2 associated research fellows (PhD, PostDoc)

„Masking Cooperation with the Infidel: The Venetian Commercial Privileges, Political Power and Legal Culture in Mamluk Egypt”, in Power and Culture: Hegemony, Interaction and Dissent, ed. Jonathan Osmond and Ausma Cimadina (Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2006), 33-51.

2005-2006 CLIOHRES.NET (“Creating Links and Innovative Overviews for a New History Research Agenda for the Citizens of a Growing Europe”), Network of excellence, group: „Power and Culture“ Conferences in Riga, Pisa and Cardiff, two papers given, one published.

Membership

Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (SSCLE),
News on the Rialto,
Renaissance Society of America,
Hansischer Geschichtsverein,
Historischer Zirkel, Basel,
Mediterranean Maritime History Network.

Project management

Webbased LoKiHweb/MMDD database for collaborative work and exchange of resources via Internet. So far, it is engineered mainly for the use of the JRG “Trading diasporas”; is currently built up to a platform for a further research community in cooperation with partners from Heidelberg, Canada and Hungary.

Cooperation between Transcultural Studies, Interdisziplinärem Zentrum für wissenschaftliches Rechnen (IWR), Heidelberg Research Architecture (HRA) and the Litlink developers Ph. Sarasin, P. Haber and N. Busch for the development of Litlink (database software with web application for management of literature, different types of sources, objects, images, persons and places with integrated project administration and intelligent management of keywords (2008-2011).